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A hard, or stony, plantlike organism, as the gorgonians, corals, and corallines, esp. those gorgonians having a calcareous axis. All the lithophytes except the corallines are animals.

A long, narrow spade for stony lands.

Gluttony; gormandizing. [Obs.]

Pink family (Caryophyllaceæ). Most of the species have brilliantly colored flowers and cottony leaves, which may have anciently answered as wicks for lamps. The botanical name is in common use for the garden species. The corn cockle (Lychnis Githago) is a common weed in wheat fields.

An extensive division of Anthozoa, including most of the species that produce stony corals. See Illust. of Anthozoa. -- Mad`re*po*ra"ri*an, a. & n.

Any coral of the genus Madrepora; formerly, often applied to any stony coral.

Border; margin; edge; verge. [Poetic] Tennyson. Along the river's stony marge. Wordsworth.

The conversion of a cell wall into a material of a stony nature.

Uttered in one unvarying tone; continued with dull uniformity; characterized by monotony; without change or variety; wearisome. -- Mo*not"o*nous*ly, adv. -- Mo*not"o*nous*ness, n.

; rendered torpid; benumbed; insensible; as, the fingers or limbs are numb with cold. "A stony image, cold and numb." Shak.

ne; conversion of any organic matter (animal or vegetable) into stone, or a substance of stony hardness.

To convert, as any animal or vegetable matter, into stone or stony substance. A river that petrifies any sort of wood or leaves. Kirwan.

Hard; stony; petrous; as, the petrosal bone; petrosal part of the temporal bone.

Like stone; hard; stony; rocky; as, the petrous part of the temporal bone. Hooper.

d person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person. "Such a profligate as Antony." Swift.

Ragged; rough. [Obs.] "A stony and raggie hill." Holland.

il in rattling tempest forms. Addison. 'T was but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street. Byron.

d in Australia. Hence, any body of rock yielding valuable ore. Reef builder (Zoöl.), any stony coral which contributes material to the formation of coral reefs. -- Reef heron (Zoöl.), any heron of the genus Demigretta; as, the blue reef heron (D.jugularis) of Australia.

To raise up something in; to introduce a contrast or variety into; to remove the monotony or sameness of. The poet must . . . sometimes relieve the subject with a moral reflection. Addison.

our fathers. Ld. Berners. The gods are just, and will revenge our cause. Dryden. Come, Antony, and young Octavius, come, Revenge yourselves alone on Cassius. Shak.